Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 463
sfrom many old traditions and developed a style of their own: they lookedforward or around them, not backward; conventional though it was, theirart was a more complete expression of contemporary life. Where thetreatment of the human figure is less immediately concerned, the fidelity isthe same, but… … Fig. 259. Solomon and David, the Baptism, Nativity, &c. : page from the Syriac Gospel ofRabula, a. d. 586, in the Laurentian Library, Florence. (Hautes Etudes : A.Venturi.) P. 448. no less predominant in the monasteries than the Hellenistic style at thecourt; and since monasticism outlasted the…
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